General Wario references thread (Now with Index on page 13).

[CM30]

Oh hey, it's Waluigi Pinball/DS Wario Stadium! That's pretty cool to hear played live!

 

[607]

That is Nintendo's Special Rock Band, playing at the Switch Experience in Tokyo. (Which was a day after the presentation.)
Nintendo's Special Rock Band along with their Special Big Band is basically Nintendo's in house band, basically their version of Sega's S.S.T (Sega Sound Team.)

Here's the big band.


EDIT: Added some more details to prevent confusion.

That's really cool.
I'll watch that one too!

 

[warelander]

Something fun I just realized, look at the Wario team logos in the baseball games:
http://www.mariowiki.com/Wario_Greats

Notice something? They all use the same font as the Land 2 & 3 title logos:

Why yes, I am a nerd. Thanks for asking.

 

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Offical promo video by Nintendo explaining Wario Land:

Just wait for Supermariobroth to create gifs out of this video.

 

[warelander]

Ah hey, one of the cards in Mario Sports Superstars uses a Wario World artwork:

https://www.mariowiki.com/File:Wario_Flex_Artwork_-_Wario_World.png

As lazy as most of those cards are that's at least a semi-interesting tidbit.

 

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Wario had a move where he slams with his torso before Super Smash:

 

[warelander]

Wario had a move where he slams with his torso before Super Smash:

Nice comparison there, I never threw threw a parallel between these being somewhat similar, that should make for some fun move origin fan wanking™ material.

 

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So far, Mario Kart 8 contains more Wario tracks than any other:

 

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Who came out with the idea of riding an owl first?

 

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When was the last time Wario appeared in a TV commercial?

(If you slow down the video, you can actually see that Wario has the same haircut as Mario)

Other thing I'd like to point out, is that they reused Wario's laughing animation from Mario Land 2 in both Wario's Woods commercials, but they probably hired the actor again to do the laugh.

 

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Looking with detail, you can tell which hat was cheap to fabricate.

 

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They mixed Wario Land: Shake it ~ Ruins with Waluigi Pinball's remix on Brawl (00:54):

 

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Wario's appearences in the New Super Mario Bros franchise

(5:30)(20:22)

 

[Just a Wario Fan]

That Coincentration minigame is really challenging. My personal record is only seven coins.

 

[warelander]

On a random note, I like how the NSMB version bothered to redraw the assets for the minigame:

 

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The second time we get to see Dr. Mario and Wario together, is in Super Smash:

 

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This piece of artwork is showing a loose reference to Wario and modern design Donkey Kong's debut in Mario Kart:

And there are more:

I was explaining in a previous post about if you choose Wario, Mario and Daisy would become your rivals; doing a slight reference to Mario Land. And if you choose Waluigi, Toadette would also become your rival; making a reference to Mario Kart: Double Dash.

 

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In Super Smash there is an accessory that allows you to dash attack, similar to a Wario land and Shake it.

 

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So far, Mario Kart 8 contains more Wario tracks than any other:

Water park can be also a track based on Wario & Waluigi, but the ghost racer is Baby Luigi.